Everything is fine with me. It’s just time. I’ve been making these for over 7 years now, and it’s been a wonderful fulfilling experience. I’ve reached a point where I want to push myself creatively in other ways. I make my living as an animator, and I need to dedicate more time and creative energy into improving my skills in that area.

I also want to spend more of my free time away from working at a computer. I live in a wonderful city that I rarely take the time to enjoy. A couple weekends ago I played some WoW, went to a book club meeting, and walked around Central Park. This weekend I spent a day at the MOMA and then saw Weird Al in concert. These were wonderful days for me. And unfortunately days like that are way too few when I’m making a webcomic outside of my full time job.

I have to admit that I’m sad about this. This has been a huge part of my life for the past 7 years. I’m still really interested in the possibilities of SIQO, the fictional MMO that’s been the subject of many recent comics. But I’m also sad that I don’t have the time to make those comics as good as I want. That would only be possible if I had been able to make NPC Comic a full time job.

I’m not saying goodbye to these characters. They will likely be the subjects of animated gifs and inktober sketches. If you don’t want to say goodbye to them, follow me on Twitter, Instagram, or Tumblr. I’ll keep making things. Hopefully better things. At a slower, more deliberate pace. I can already tease that I’m involved in something involving animation and retro video games, out later this year. It’s a small thing, but it should be cute and I think anyone who has followed this comic will enjoy it.

Thank you for reading all these years. I would have retired NPC Comic a lot sooner if I didn’t have this wonderful little audience. The biggest thanks go to my patrons. That support has made a huge difference to me. Not only did it supplement my income, it helped me mentally justify spending so much time on making the comics.

Here’s what’s going to happen with my Patreon page: Before October 1, I’ll be reverting it to a patron only page, so you won’t be charged another month. Patrons, I may communicate with you via email to ensure you get any rewards that you may not have gotten around to downloading. Please let me know if you have any questions.

This site will stay up. The archive is here for your perusal. If there’s interest, I may compile the comics into inexpensive ebooks so you can be sure to always have them in case, many years from now, the site breaks and I’m unable to fix it.

It’s late Tuesday night. I have a comic all ready to go, but no internet with which to post it for you. (Ahem, Time Warner Cable) I’m traveling to Gen Con on Wednesday, so I’ll post it as soon as I can connect my Surface to the internet and export a web friendly version of my comic from photoshop. *kermit flail*

Hi everyone! I hope you’re having a good summer. I just wanted to let you know that I’m going to be posting NPC Comics 2/week, on Monday and Wednesdays for the time being. Day job and life are a bit much right now (nothing major), and I think the comics will be better if I do this. I might be posting more new style “Not Particularly Canon” comics than NPC classics, especially while I think and write material for the NPC characters. We haven’t seen Chloe and Bink in a while, and I’m thinking about bringing them back in a new fun way.

This pack consists of 63 (whoa, a lot this time!) square pictures of NPC Comic character heads taken from NPC Comics that were published in February 2016. They’re all sized as large as the original art allowed, so the sizes vary. Great for using as social media profile pics!

You can get this pack for only a dollar on my Gumroad store. If you’re a patron, you’re getting it for free until the end of July!

I wasn’t sure I’d see the Warcraft movie. The reviews were grim, and I’ve never been a huge Warcraft lore person. But a friend and guildie wanted to see it, so I figured, why not? Here are my brief spoiler-free thoughts about it.

Good stuff:

The orcs are cooler than I thought. When I saw the trailers, I was turned off by the obvious CGI everywhere. But close up, they looked great, felt real, and had some interesting stories.

Garona has a really satisfying storyline. She’s caught in the middle of the factions, so she’s always right at the heart of conflict. I didn’t expect to like her as much as I did.

It was cool to see Dominic Cooper and Ruth Negga, both of whom are doing great work in the Preacher.

Bad stuff:

The main character, Lothar, fell flat for me. I don’t blame the actor. I think they just packed too much into his storyline in too short a time for him to be believable. The whole movie squeezed so much in with all its characters, and he suffered the most for it. I think this would have been a more compelling film, and Lothar a stronger character, if the script focused on just a couple of key players.

The movie highlighted how dull I find the Stormwind humans. There’s a handsome king with a beautiful wife and children, and everyone likes them? *yawn* Game of Thrones and Tudor history has gotten me accustomed to high drama in my fictional patriarchal monarchies. There must be more human monarch drama somewhere in the expanded Warcraft universe, right? I’m not advocating that the movie should insert more conflict there – as I said, its biggest failing is that it tries to do too much. It’s just that I’ve always preferred Ironforge to Stormwind, and this movie reminded me why.

Final thoughts:

I think WoW players will enjoy the Warcraft movie. I wouldn’t recommend it to non-WoW players, unless the trailers really interest them. I missed a lot of easter eggs, so I already want to see it again when its out of theaters.